key generation: paranoia mode - explicit random input

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Wed Feb 26 08:56:17 CET 2014


On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 06:08, mailinglisten at hauke-laging.de said:

> I suggest to add a new key generation mode. The only difference would be 
> that the random input is not read from /dev/random any more (and that 
> random_seed would not be used or newly initialized) but from an explicit 

You may first want to read about Libgcrypt/GnuPG RNG.  The Libgcrypt
manual has a section on it.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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